Edward Botwinick

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
Botwinick graduated from <a href="/facts/Columbia_College_(New_York)/up2EKu9B">Columbia College</a> with a BA in 1956 and the <a href="/facts/Columbia_School_of_Engineering_and_Applied_Science/XQHn25Uk">Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science</a> with a BS in 1958.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a>
Upon graduating from Columbia, Botwinick worked for US Semiconductor Corporation before co-founding Silicon Transistor Corporation. After the company went public, it was acquired in 1963. From 1963 to 1967, Botwinick was president and a shareholder Quantum Inc. He then joined <a href="/facts/Goldman_Sachs/cKeyh6CP">Goldman Sachs</a> as Vice President of high-tech investment research and venture capital.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>
At Goldman, Botwinick, he learned of the opportunity to invest in American Data Systems, the company behind <a href="/facts/Time-division_multiplexing/tv7bMh1v">Time-division multipliers</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a> He then invested, and co-founded Timeplex and became chairman and CEO of the company in 1977.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> In the next few years, he led the company to launch a number of successful statistical multiplexer products, including the T-1 multiplexers, and made it one of the first companies to use microprocessors in its systems.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>
In 1987, <a href="/facts/Unisys/y49ddC6b">Unisys</a> acquired Timeplex for $307 million and Botwinick became Senior Vice President of Unisys and President of Unisys Networks.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a> He retired from Unisys in 1989.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a>
Botwinick sat on the board of <a href="/facts/Duke_Cancer_Institute/22x82oMk">Duke Cancer Institute</a> and <a href="/facts/Lamont%25E2%2580%2593Doherty_Earth_Observatory/b6U0PoCl">Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory</a>, and was a trustee of Columbia University.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> He currently serves as a president of the Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a>

<h2 id="personal-life-and-family">Personal life and family</h2>
Botwinick's father was Benjamin Botwinick, businessman and philanthropist who founded Benjamin Botwinick & Co., a <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a> accounting firm.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a> His sister, Elaine Botwinick, was married to World Bank president <a href="/facts/James_Wolfensohn/ymFTnNoH">James Wolfensohn</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Botwinick, Edward interview. Edward Botwinick , James L. Pelkey. Woodcliff Lake, NJ: Computer History Museum. 1988-03-10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718" target="_blank">https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1988). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. <a href="http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_030" target="_blank">http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_030</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Botwinick, Edward interview. Edward Botwinick , James L. Pelkey. Woodcliff Lake, NJ: Computer History Museum. 1988-03-10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718" target="_blank">https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Pelkey, James L.; Russell, Andrew L.; Robbins, Loring G. (2022-04-19). Circuits, Packets, and Protocols: Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988. Morgan & Claypool. ISBN 978-1-4503-9729-2. <a href="978-1-4503-9729-2" target="_blank">978-1-4503-9729-2</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Botwinick, Edward interview. Edward Botwinick , James L. Pelkey. Woodcliff Lake, NJ: Computer History Museum. 1988-03-10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718" target="_blank">https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">"Timeplex | History of Computer Communications". historyofcomputercommunications.info. Retrieved 2022-06-29. <a href="https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/13.27/timeplex/" target="_blank">https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/13.27/timeplex/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:8">Network World. IDG Network World Inc. 1986-11-10. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22edward+botwinick%22+%22timeplex%22&pg=PA13" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22edward+botwinick%22+%22timeplex%22&pg=PA13</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:10">Botwinick, Edward interview. Edward Botwinick , James L. Pelkey. Woodcliff Lake, NJ: Computer History Museum. 1988-03-10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718" target="_blank">https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738718</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:12">Enterprise, I. D. G. (1988-02-08). Computerworld. IDG Enterprise. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hSBrPSYgjI4C&dq=%22Edward+Botwinick%22+semiconductor&pg=PP80" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=hSBrPSYgjI4C&dq=%22Edward+Botwinick%22+semiconductor&pg=PP80</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">"EXECUTIVE CHANGES". The New York Times. 1989-02-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-29. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/16/business/executive-changes-790489.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/16/business/executive-changes-790489.html</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:14">"Columbia Engineering Magazine - Spring 2012 by Columbia Engineering School - Issuu". issuu.com. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 2022-06-29. <a href="https://issuu.com/columbiaengineeringschool/docs/spring2012" target="_blank">https://issuu.com/columbiaengineeringschool/docs/spring2012</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:15">Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1988). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. <a href="http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_030" target="_blank">http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_030</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:16">Roberts, Ken Schwencke, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Alec Glassford, Andrea Suozzo, Brandon (2013-05-09). "Botwinick Wolfensohn Foundation Inc - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 2022-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/136111833" target="_blank">https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/136111833</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:17">"The Trustees Emeriti | Office of the Secretary". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-29. <a href="https://secretary.columbia.edu/content/trustees-emeriti" target="_blank">https://secretary.columbia.edu/content/trustees-emeriti</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:18">School, Columbia Business (2017-06-12). "About Benjamin Botwinick '26". The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics. Retrieved 2022-06-29. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help) <a href="https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/leadership/speakerseries/botwinick/about" target="_blank">https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/leadership/speakerseries/botwinick/about</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:19">"Elaine Wolfensohn | Albright Institute". www.wellesley.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-29. <a href="https://www.wellesley.edu/albright/about/faculty/elaine-wolfensohn" target="_blank">https://www.wellesley.edu/albright/about/faculty/elaine-wolfensohn</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:20">Hershey, Robert D. Jr. (2020-11-26). "James D. Wolfensohn, Who Led the World Bank for 10 Years, Dies at 86". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-29. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/business/economy/james-d-wolfensohn-dead.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/business/economy/james-d-wolfensohn-dead.html</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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